Case study:Love My River

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Location: 53° 39' 25.08" N, 2° 38' 32.15" W

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Status	In progress
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Themes	Economic aspects, Environmental flows and water resources, Habitat and biodiversity, Monitoring, Water quality
Country	England
Main contact forename	Pauline
Main contact surname	Taylor
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Contact organisation	Groundwork CLM
Contact organisation web site	http://www.groundwork.org.uk/clm
Partner organisations	• Local Authorities including Wigan and Chorley Council, West Lancashire Borough Council
Parent multi-site project	River Douglas Catchment Partnership
This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

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Love My River is a community led project developed by Groundwork CLM. Its main aims are tackling river pollution and creating a legacy that will protect the future of its waterways for years to come. It has so far carried out improvements at the River Chor and River Tawd in Lancashire.

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Love My River involves teams of volunteers undertaking weekly river walkovers as well as other small scale projects to improve water quality.

The team carry out regular water quality surveys, INNS (Invasive Non Native Species) removal and habitat management works along the river. They have also carried out a number of clean up days, which have not only been well supported, but also yielded excellent results:

• Nearly 20km of river protected or improved • 9717km² of land improved • 827 volunteers hours secured; involving general public, students, partnering organisations and local businesses • 179 bags of rubbish removed, along with tyres, shopping trolleys and other debris • A local ‘friends’ group being set up to continue work with the local Council and schools

As well as significantly improving local environments, Love My River has also:

• brought stakeholders and communities together • generated interest and support towards improving the local water environment • engaged people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities with local waterways and green spaces, providing health and wellbeing benefits • built capacity by providing training and learning opportunities and; • given people an opportunity to make a real difference to the area they live in.

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Catchment and subcatchment Select a catchment/subcatchment Site Edit site Name Love My River - Community-Led Project WFD water body codes WFD (national) typology WFD water body name Pre-project morphology Reference morphology Desired post project morphology Heavily modified water body No National/international site designation Local/regional site designations Protected species present No Invasive species present No Species of interest Dominant hydrology Dominant substrate River corridor land use Average bankfull channel width category Average bankfull channel width (m) Average bankfull channel depth category Average bankfull channel depth (m) Mean discharge category Mean annual discharge (m3/s) Average channel gradient category Average channel gradient Average unit stream power (W/m2) Project background Edit project background Reach length directly affected (m) Project started Works started Works completed Project completed Total cost category Total cost (k€) Benefit to cost ratio Funding sources Cost for project phases Phase cost category cost exact (k€) Lead organisation Contact forename Contact surname Investigation and design Stakeholder engagement and communication Works and works supervision Post-project management and maintenance Monitoring Reasons for river restoration Edit reasons for restoration Mitigation of a pressure Hydromorphology Biology Pollution Physico-chemical Other reasons for the project Measures Edit Measures Structural measures Bank/bed modifications Floodplain / River corridor Habitat enhancement, Vegetation removal Planform / Channel pattern Other Non-structural measures Management interventions Walkover surveys and water sample data collection, Clean-up days Social measures (incl. engagement) Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, Community involvement Other Monitoring Hydromorphological quality elements Edit Hydromorphological quality elements Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Biological quality elements Edit biological quality elements Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Physico-chemical quality elements Edit Physico-chemical quality elements Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Any other monitoring, e.g. social, economic Edit Other responses Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative Monitoring documents Upload monitoring documents Additional documents and videos Upload additional documents Additional links and references Edit links and references Link Description Supplementary Information Edit Supplementary Information